Luke 21:10-11
Then He said to them, “Nation
will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be great
earthquakes in various places and famines and pestilences, and there will be
fearful sights and great signs from heaven.”
Was this of the devil or of God? It is of neither. It is of man, though
both God and the devil are behind it. War is a conflict of wills, either of
individuals or of nations.
National quarrels are everywhere today, and it is those quarrels that
make men say, “Well, blot out nationals altogether; the only thing to do is
ignore the fact that there are nations; let us look forward to a time when
there will be none.” This attitude is a revolt which is a mere safety valve. The
vision of a time when there will be no nations is right, but ignoring the fact
that there are nations just now is not the way to establish the vision.
After the war, the elemental will take
its place again, and we shall recover what we had lost in over-civilization… In
the final issue, some things belonging to civilization will be found to be fine,
and some disastrous. The preaching
of the “gospel of temperment” and all such shallow optimism has been hit on the
head by the war; there are some clouds with no silver lining and the injunction
to cheer up is an insult.
Excerpts from Oswald Chambers
Daily Devotional Bible, Reading 121 (5/1)
From
The Shadow of Agony
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